Conquistador
Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Written by Buddy Levy
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.
It was a moment unique in human history...
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Crossings
Photographs from the U. S. Mexico Border
Written by Alex Webb and Tom Miller
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2003
Price: $50.00
The United States-Mexico border -- a ribbon of land some two thousand miles long and ten miles wide that is home to twelve million people -- is a narrow strip where cultural differences between the two lands are blurred, where an atmosphere of transience and crossings dominates. Noted photographer Alex Webb...
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The History of the Conquest of Mexico
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by William H. Prescott
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $22.95
"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of
History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view...
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